Walter B. Gibson

Walter B. Gibson
BornWalter Brown Gibson
(1897-09-12)September 12, 1897
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedDecember 6, 1985(1985-12-06) (aged 88)
Kingston, New York, U.S.
Pen nameMaxwell Grant (shared)
OccupationAuthor and magician
NationalityAmerican
Genrecomic books, comic strips, hypnotism, magic, psychic phenomena, pulp magazines, true crime, yoga

Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897 – December 6, 1985) was an American writer and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow. Gibson, under the pen-name Maxwell Grant, wrote "more than 300 novel-length" Shadow stories, writing up to "10,000 words a day" to satisfy public demand during the character's golden age in the 1930s and 1940s.[1] He authored several novels in the Biff Brewster juvenile series of the 1960s. He was married to Litzka R. Gibson, also a writer, and the couple lived in New York state.

  1. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (December 7, 1985). "Walter B. Gibson, the Creator of 'The Shadow,' Dead at 88". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 24, 2015.